Re: ManHub.com - Making money on your stolen content?
I don’t understand this “moving them slowly forward” bit. It’s pretty clear to me what you need to do: If Manhub is uploading full-length content, you tell them to stop – today, right now, right this second, there is no phasing in process, just stop. If they are creating fake log-ins to cover their tracks, you tell them to stop, again, today.
If Bang Bros can’t bring their tube site under control, then perhaps as a gesture of good will to the large gay porn community, you need to drop them as a client.
It’s not complicated stuff. If I put up a full-length on Joe Spunk, I’d probably get an email from the site owner or affiliate rep or their lawyer asking me to remove it. I could say, “OMG! I’m so sorry, I don’t know how that happened, I meant to put up a teaser clip, but I must have clicked the wrong file on my computer.” I remove the video and a week later I do another one. I might get away with this or two three times, then I’m pretty sure that my affiliate account would be closed and very likely I’d be getting legal papers in the mail. There would be no “moving me forward slowly.” Once: okay maybe it’s a mistake; twice: um, something’s going on here; three times: this guy is fucking with us.
Peter, no one has explained to us what “being held accountable” means. Please, explain it in plain English.
Seems to me that it means nothing. A pirated video sits on a torrent, a tube, or wherever until someone notices it, then a DMCA is sent and the video is removed. There are no consequences, no one is held accountable, the whole world just shrugs their shoulders and says, “Sorry, we didn’t know.”
Peter, you ask us not to be blinded by our anger about piracy. It’s pretty hard not to be angry when a great many of us our hurting financially. We have watched our traffic and sales disappear, we have watched tubes grow and grow, we have watched some of them play all kinds of games and get away with it. The only people that are being “held accountable” are sponsors and affiliates who watch their revenues decline.
Peter, what if Porn Guardian is being used to learn how the system works, so companies can figure out how to game the system?